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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Media research firm Kaleida launches The Attention Index, an open-source algorithm to measure the quality and impact of stories — The index looks at whether a story is featured prominently on the homepage and for how long, as well as how readers engage with it on Facebook, to measure attention
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Secret 107-page Department of Defense report says Chelsea Manning leaks were largely insignificant and did not cause any real harm to US interests — Prosecutors said Wikileaks disclosures about Iraq and Afghanistan posed a major threat to America's national security.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Millennial news site Mic raises $6.5M from WPP, one of the world's largest ad agencies, in addition to the Series C round it announced in April — Millennials remain a hot target for digital marketing and advertising, and so perhaps unsurprisingly, a startup building news …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
McClatchy's ongoing digital transition: producing 29K pieces of local content a month, with 1K driving over half readership; print ads make up 25% of revenue — If you are a reporter at one of McClatchy's 31 papers, you will have this meeting sometime in the next year, or you may have already:
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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names new deputy editorial page editor: Kathleen Kingsbury, managing editor for digital at The Boston Globe and a 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner — The New York Times announced today that Kathleen Kingsbury has been named deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times.
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@katiekings, Media Nation and @jseglin
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
An inside look at how The Guardian's US operation has struggled to crack America, with some sources comparing it to a glorified foreign bureau for the UK paper — The Guardian's US newsroom didn't become the voice of the Bernie left during the election. It didn't break huge campaign scoops.
David Shimer / New York Times:
German police raid homes of 36 accused of hateful posts on social media including threats, coercion, and incitement to racism, amid push for social media bill — In a coordinated campaign across 14 states, the German police on Tuesday raided the homes of 36 people accused of hateful postings …
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@stollmeyereu, @notuberhat and CNET
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
In a first for broadcasters, Fox to adopt six-second ads that are created internally and billed by viewable impressions — Short format will air first on-demand, later on linear — Fox Networks Group said it will adopt the six-second ad format introduced by YouTube.
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Drive-by attempts at covering Trump country result in oversimplified stories and suggest national media isn't addressing its deficiencies in a sustained way — Salena Zito needs a new Jeep. Her current model is slowly dying after 14 years and more than 300,000 miles on the road …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
CNN to invest $40M in its in-house startup Great Big Story over the next two years, turning it into 24-hour streaming service, distributed on Sling TV, others — Startup to shift from social distribution to 24-hour channel — Great Big Story said to be valued at as much as $250 million
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Business Insider, The Wrap, @gerryfsmith, TVNewser, Great Big Story, @nzingaq, @mdornic, @tomgara and @mathewi
campaignlive.co.uk:
Mashable launches UK edition on Snapchat Discover — After a successful two-year global content partnership with Snapchat, Mashable UK has rolled out a UK-specific edition on its Discover platform. — Produced by Mashable's London based team, and led by its UK editor, Anne-Marie Tomchak …
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Sources: Spicer is leading a search for his replacement as press secretary, having spoken with radio host Laura Ingraham and Daily Mail editor David Martosko — White House press secretary Sean Spicer has spoken with radio host Laura Ingraham and Daily Mail editor David Martosko, among others.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Rick and Jill Larson, owners of the studio at the center of the Netflix OITNB leak, reveal what happened when they were targeted by hackers, including extortion — Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent @jank0 … Larson Studios president Rick Larson and his wife and business partner …
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